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Definition: BUCK-BASKET

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Buck-basket" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Specialty Definition: BUCK-BASKET

Domain Definition
Literature Buck-basket A linen-basket. To buck is to wash clothes in lye; and a buck is one whose clothes are buck, or nicely got up. When Cade says his mother was "descended from the Lacies," two men overhear him, and say, "She was a pedlar's daughter, but not being able to travel with her furred pack, she washes bucks here at home." (2 Henry VI., iv. 2.) (German, beuchen, to steep clothes in lye; beuche, clothes so steeped. However, compare "bucket," a diminutive of the Anglo-Saxon buc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Definition: BUCK-BASKET

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "BUCK-BASKET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Specialty Definition: BUCK-BASKET

DomainDefinition
LiteratureBuck-basket A linen-basket. To buck is to wash clothes in lye; and a buck is one whose clothes are buck, or nicely got up. When Cade says his mother was "descended from the Lacies," two men overhear him, and say, "She was a pedlar's daughter, but not being able to travel with her furred pack, she washes bucks here at home." (2 Henry VI., iv. 2.) (German, beuchen, to steep clothes in lye; beuche, clothes so steeped. However, compare "bucket," a diminutive of the Anglo-Saxon buc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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